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Wednesday, 20 July 2016

SA eSports expanding across the globe

The President of the IeSF - Mr. Byun Hun Jun

From
the 25th of July till the 2nd of August Colin Webster, the general
secretary of MSSA, along with Jason Batzofin, the MSSA player's representative, will be attending the Global eSports Executive Summit
in Shanghai, China. The summit will take place at the prestigious
Hyatt hotel. During the summit the IeSF along with all other
federations involved hope to make plans to further the development of
eSports world wide and to discuss the potential that eSports can
produce with the more traditional sports.

The summit will be hosted
by the IeSF. International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) is the sole
international governing body representing the discipline of e-sports.
In order to deliver its mission statement, to develop global e-sports
standard for promoting and settling down e-sports as official sport
discipline, IeSF was founded in 2008 with its 9 founding member
nations with support of the Government. As IeSF is being perceived as
one of the authorized international governing bodies, IeSF is further
attempting to take a role in the e-sports field to enhance and
upraise global recognition of e-sports.